The next installment:

I have now sanded the edges of the sections to glued them into place on the fins and rudder. You want the the sections to be level with the body tube. One tip that I did was to place a ruler on the end of the tube and draw a line across the rudder to get that section on straight.

Now shape the Ramjet standoff using the template and sanding device. (I had Mark do this for me and he used a small belt sander to speed up the process.)

The Ramjets are now assembled. The edge of the stand off now gets sanded to fit the contour of the ramjet.

Both small nose cones that were cut earlier have now been sanded to fit the contour of the main body tube. To do this I wrapped a piece of sand paper around the body tube.

That all for now.
I think these steps were the more time consuming ones except for maybe cutting the tubes.

While your waiting while I work on some more I have uploaded more pictures for you to enjoy and also some photos of the prototype that Mark built and took to NSL-07.
It was in primer when we arrived and sticking with what is quickly becoming a tradition with us, Mark proceeded to paint it a very nice solid black gloss right there on the field.
He then flew it on a Aerotech F22-5, what we didn't know was that instead of giving us a 5 sec. delay it wanted to surprise us with a 15 sec. delay. It was a beautiful flight, however the results were not pretty. Mark has now fixed the damage and as you'll be able to tell on the pics the gray/black parts are from the crashed on.

More Photos have been added to the Hawks Hobby Photo Gallery : Super Bomarc Build

Enjoy, Loretta

 

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